Weapons and equipment are theoretically a matter of the state, and it is only natural for officers and men to go out to fight with the state.

At all, Lao Jialiu, the great general, had a headache.

However, the national conditions of the Qing Dynasty are more complicated.

In terms of system, the weapons of the Eight Banners Army are divided into three parts: official-made, self-made, and paid-made.

The official construction mainly refers to the weapons and equipment issued by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry.

Self-made and self-made weapons are both self-made weapons.

The "Great Qing Huidian" clearly stipulates that this is "its own equipment, or my own old weapons." ”

Generally, they are ordnance handed down from their ancestors.

Jia Liu's family has a big bow left by Mrs. Jia.

That is to say, in addition to special weapons, such as muskets, artillery, and medicines, the rest of the horses, armor, bows and crossbows and other military weapons in the imperial court system are actually to be prepared by themselves.

If it is not enough, you need to buy it at your own expense.

There was no problem with this system at the beginning of the country, because in essence, Eight Banners was a robbery gang.

The flag owner is the head of the robbery syndicate.

The return rate of looting against the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia, and Korea was extremely high, so the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners enthusiastically brought their own dry rations to the battle.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it enclosed land throughout North China to meet the basic land needs of the Eight Banners.

The Shunzhi Dynasty customized the land that the Eight Banners could inherit from generation to generation was 30 acres.

In addition, the state has to pay the soldiers of the Eight Banners every year, and the level of military salaries is divided according to the Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han armies.

A low-level Manchurian Eight Banner forward, guard, leader, and vest each has a monthly salary of 4 taels of silver, plus 46 Hu rice a year, which is equivalent to a year's salary in Qipinzhi County.

And all the men in the Manchurian Eight Banners family can enjoy the "imperial food", and there are also newborn babies, relatively few.

High wages, combined with basic land, awards for military exploits, and past looting, made the income of even the lowest vests of the Manchurian soldiers at the beginning of the country equivalent to that of the middle class.

In this way, the banner soldiers will have no economic pressure to bring their own weapons, and they will have a future and rewards for their military exploits, and their enthusiasm for going out for the country is not ordinarily high.

The problem is that after a hundred years, the children of the Eight Banners have all decayed from top to bottom, and they all know how to eat, drink, and have fun, and they can't ride horses or draw bows.

Sitting on the mountain for a long time will definitely lead to the fall of the family, so many of the children of the Eight Banners pawn most of their fields and become landless households.

On the contrary, the rapid growth of the population of Eight Banners has made it difficult for Eight Banners to make their livelihoods difficult.

I can't even feed a family, can we still expect the children of the Eight Banners to raise war horses and take care of ordnance as carefully as their ancestors, and the country can immediately put on a battle once it is needed.

Apparently not!

The situation is similar on the side of the imperial court.

In order to reduce the expenditure of the state treasury, Qianlong specially issued an edict in the 21st year of Qianlong, saying, "In the future, the armor and other military weapons of the officers and soldiers going out on the expedition should be prepared by themselves, and they should be repaired by the holder himself after a certain period of use, so that it is more solid than the official system." ”

That is, since the beginning of the fight, in addition to the muskets and artillery still being built by the Ministry of Industry, the armor, bows and arrows, sacks, waist knives, flail sticks, conches, etc., which are needed by the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners, have all been stopped.

When it came time to go on the expedition, even the official equipment in the past had to be purchased by the flag soldiers themselves, which undoubtedly increased their burden.

At the beginning, Jia Liu's gang were able to get the weapons and equipment issued to them when they went out on the expedition, mainly because they were reserve officers of the Eight Banners, and they were all sons of Shijue, and there were not many of them.

If you really want to go to tens of thousands of people, I'm afraid that Jia Liude will pull the big black horse at home that is too old to walk, and carry the big bow left by his old lady to the battlefield.

Now, together with the Eight Banners of the clan, there are 40,000 people at a time, and the food and drink can still be scraped together, where can I put aside such a scale of armor and weapons?

Could it be true that those Eight Banners soldiers should prepare themselves?

It's really a coincidence, and it's hard for a daughter-in-law to cook without rice.

You must know that the foundation of the Qing family is rotten like this, and Jia Liu said that he would not be the general king at all.

There was no way, so I had to ask Lang Enming, the squire of the Ministry of Works, to ask Lao Fu at the Military Aircraft Department, and Lao Fu replied very simply: "Do it according to the past." ”

In the past, customization was that the official-made muskets and artillery were sent down, and the others were solved by themselves.

Jia Liu understood what he meant, as long as he could get weapons and equipment, the old rich man didn't care whether he killed people or set fires.

Armor, swords and spears, the actual Eight Banners basically have them, and they are worse, but there are really not many other consumables.

For example, Prince An's newly formed White Banner Protector Army of 3,000 people, according to the system, should be equipped with at least 1,000 bows and crossbows, but in fact, this army is equipped with less than 300 big bows and crossbow arrows.

The main weapons are standard knives and spears, as well as some more intimidating-looking honor guards.

The basic equipment of the musket is 0.00.

Where did the muskets go?

Most of them were stolen by Jia Liu.

After the initial ominous incident in Manchuria, in order to fully arm himself, he established a military industrial park in Tianjin, vigorously developed new firearms, and thus increased the success rate of his armed seizure of power.

Jia Liu, carrying the old rich man and Uncle Se, quietly ordered the gunpowder depot on Xizhimen Neijie Street, which was under the jurisdiction of the original Ministry of Industry, and the arsenal of muskets, cannons, lead, and guns for collecting and storing scrap iron cannons under the Ordnance Section, Ordnance Case Room, and Ordnance Calculation Room under the Yu Hengqing Division, and the inventory of ordnance and technical personnel under the Yangxin Palace Office were packed to Tianjin.

To what extent have the several powder magazines and armory rooms under the management of the Ministry of Industry been cleaned up, and there is really no scrap of copper and rotten iron left for the Ministry of Industry.

At the same time, a large number of weapons and equipment were stolen by the flag men for self-defense.

As a result, when the imperial court came to its senses, there was only a pants left in the military inventory of the Qing Dynasty for decades.

In the past two days, the Ministry of Industry has put into operation equipment that is only enough to arm about 7,000 people, and many of them are garbage goods that Jia Liu did not look down on at the beginning.

This is the first time that Jia Liu has really commanded a large army, and the command of the last time he quelled the rebellion in Shandong was not very clear, and there were not many soldiers.

Therefore, for his debut on the expedition, Jia Liu does not ask for the most expensive, but also asks for the best.

At the very least, there must be a posture.

Fresh clothes and angry horses, bright helmet spires, war horses galloping, pennants are displayed, and swords and guns are enough to row faces.

Therefore, I was really a little anxious, and scolded Enming, the liaison officer sent by the Ministry of Works, to the bloody head.

"Lord Wang, the lower officials personally went to see a number of warehouses, and there are only a handful of ordnance that can be used, and the iron rooms of the Yamen in each capital can barely recruit a batch."

Enming is not unwilling to share the worries of the prince, but he really can't change it.

Jia Liu rubbed his temples and said distressedly: "If it really doesn't work, I'll send a message to the provinces passing through and ask them to hand over all the ordnance in the warehouse." ”

Enming shook his head: "Lord Wang, I'm afraid it's difficult." ”

Jia Liu was puzzled: "What do you mean?" ”

Enming said that more than 10 years ago, the old four devils made a decree, that is, they demanded that all provinces "not be allowed to open another lead and fire industry", and the rest of the military expenditure "should be handled according to the materials for the production of lead fire arquebuses in the capital."

That is to say, except for the Beijing Division, which can start to build weapons, it is strictly forbidden to build weapons in various provinces and localities. Whenever there is a need for military weapons, they will all be requested to the imperial court to be verified by the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry will allocate them.

Jia Liu was dumbfounded: "According to this, this king went out with a large army, and he didn't even have a decent ordnance?" ”

"Yes, there are some."

Eun Ming didn't dare to say no.

Tell the prince that he found a batch of muskets in the iron room of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with more than 1,600 guns, in addition to 4 iron cannons and more than 10,000 catties of medicine.

"Quick gun?"

Jia Liu noticed that Enming used the term "fast gun", and immediately became interested and asked what kind of fast gun it was.

Enming asked someone to bring two rods to the prince.

Jia Liu took a look and found that there was no arquebus for this gun, and then looked at the structure, it was actually the flintlock pistol that he asked him to develop and produce in Tianjin.

I couldn't help but feel extremely excited and curious, and asked Enming: "This gun is produced by our Daqing Dynasty?" ”

Enming said no, saying that since the Qing Dynasty's war against Burma, many generals who participated in the war folded to the court, saying that the muskets used by the Burmese were not like the bird ropes made by the Qing soldiers, which could still be used in the wind and rain, and the power was huge, so he asked the court to pay a lot of money to purchase imitations.

At that time, Fu Longan, the minister of military aircraft in charge of the Ministry of Industry, asked the imperial court to allocate funds to send personnel to Macao to purchase a batch of flintlock guns, which were handed over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to be copied.

A total of more than 2,000 rods were copied before and after, but they were not promoted, except for some for hunting, the rest were sealed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

After Jia Liu heard what Enming said, he picked up the flintlock gun and aimed it outside the big tent, thought about letting people load gunpowder, and then took over the trigger and banged.

Sure enough, the firing speed was several times faster than that of the arquebus.

"Such a good gun, why not promote it in Eight Banners and Green Camp?"

Jia Liu actually had the answer in his heart, but he still wanted to get a definite answer from Enming.

"At the beginning, the emperor decreed that our Qing army was to conquer the Han people with cavalry and seize the world, so cavalry and archery were the foundation of the Qing Dynasty. The lower officials thought that the emperor's original intention was that the children of the Eight Banners were unusable, and if they could not concentrate on learning to ride and shoot, and relied on simple firearms, they would be even more reluctant to learn."

Eun Ming found a good reason for the old master.

Jia Liu didn't speak after hearing this, except for the defense of the Han and the emphasis on mounted archery, the biggest reason why the old four devils did not promote new firearms may be that the national defense environment of the Qing Dynasty at this time was relatively stable and there was no major external pressure.

He threw the gun to the man next to him and instructed Enming: "You erase these flintlock guns from the account book, and you will not send them down, this king has another use." ”

"Huh!"

Enming is also very skillful, and when he picks up his pen, he blackens all the flintlock pistols on the account book with ink.

He also reported some other ordnance, and said that there was another batch of muskets that had been eliminated from the previous wars, some of which had been briefly maintained, and some of which were ready to be returned to the furnace for reconstruction.

Jia Liu casually handed Enming a cigarette roll: "How many?" ”

Enming glanced at the account book: "More than four thousand." ”

After hearing this, Jia Liu did not hesitate to order: "Equip all these high-quality muskets with the Yellow Belt Battalion." ”

Hearing this, Enming couldn't help but be stunned, and whispered to remind the prince that this batch of muskets had serious quality problems.

"Quality problems?"

Jia Liu waved his hand disapprovingly, "Emperor Taizu dared to gather people to attack the Ming Dynasty, which was as fierce as a tiger with only thirteen sets of armor, and finally laid the foundation for the strength of my Eight Banners, and also laid the foundation for the founding of the Qing Dynasty!"

What does this mean, it shows that only the weapon theory cannot be used!

It shows that fighting a war depends on courage! ”

Speaking of pleasure, Jia Liu slapped the two most advanced pistols in the world on the table with the two most advanced pistols pinned to his waist:

"If weapons could really decide the outcome of a war, there would be no Qing Dynasty today!

This king firmly believes that as long as I love the children of Xinjueluo and everyone is brave and takes the lead, I will be able to protect and destroy the thief! ”